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Head Mounted Display Market Is Anticipated to Grow at a CAGR of 59.4% Through 2020: FMI Estimate

by Isaac Oburu

Future Market Insights (FMI), with sharp focus on emerging technologies, delivers key insights on Global Head Mounted Display market in its recent report titled “Head Mounted Display Market: Global Industry Analysis and Opportunity Assessment …

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Website Accelerates VR Takeup With That Old Standby…

by Tom Allen

By far the safest image we could use for this story…It’s been said many times – often in this very publication – that “Porn drives technology”. A website called VirtualPorn360 is out to prove …

Tags:Back Panel| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 48

Google Patents Headband for Glass

by Tom Allen

A new patent, filed by Google, has hinted at what the next iteration of Google Glass might look like. Rather than the inflexible form factor of the original, patent 9,195,067 B1 shows a headband-type …

Samsung “Delighted” With Gear VR

by Tom Allen

Samsung has said that its Gear VR headset was sold out ‘hours’ after it was launched in the USA and Europe on the 20th November at its price of $99. Samsung said, “We are …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 47

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 48

by Tom Allen

Taiwan’s Economic Daily News claims that Apple will show new 13″ and 15″ Macbook Air models at WWDC 2016, next summer. The 11″ model will be discontinued, and the new editions will be thinner …

Juniper: 2016 Will be ‘Watershed Year’ for VR

by Tom Allen

Juniper Research has identified the top technology trends for 2016. VR headsets will have a ‘watershed’ year next year, in terms of both product launches and consumer rollouts. Several big firms, including Sony, Oculus …

HMD Market by Component, Application, Product, Technology, and Geography – Global Trend and Forecast to 2020

by Isaac Oburu

The head-mounted display (HMD) refers to a headset used for reality technologies such as virtual and augmented. A HMD can be a pair of goggles or full helmet where two and three dimensional images …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Market Data| Virtual Reality

Royole Makes Bold Claims About Home Theatre Device

by Tom Allen

Royole Corporation has launched its Royole-X ‘smart mobile theatre device’. Although essentially a VR display with headphones, the Royole-X does have a few big differences. For starters, the headset uses an AMOLED display (we …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Sony Gives a Clue on Morpheus Pricing

by Tom Allen

Sony Computer Entertainment’s CEO, Andrew House, has told Bloomberg that the Playstation VR headset “will be priced as a new gaming platform”. It’s not a firm price, but is a clue towards what we …

Microsoft Active in Every Mobile Category

by Tom Allen

Microsoft used an event in the USA to announce its first-ever laptop, which appears to have been well-received by market watchers. We have covered the whole event in more detail for our paying subscribers, …

Sensics and SMI bring Virtual Reality Eye Tracking to OSVR

by Isaac Oburu

SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) and Sensics release the first eye tracking plug-in for the Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) software platform. The Organizers of Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) today announce a new software plug-in …

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Eye Tracking Added to OSVR

by Tom Allen

A new plug-in for the Open Source VR (OSVR) project has been announced, which supports SensoMotoric Instruments’ eye-tracking technology. The plug-in enables an eye-tracking interface, which can be used by developers.

Tags:Gaze Recognition| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 40